Love or blood debt? Choice without choice! Could you have imagined what a bet for fifty gold pieces would lead to? Clever Michelle, a magess who has just graduated from the Laster Magic Academy, is supposed to become a young man for a month - the secretary of the Duke de Borey, by a strange coincidence of her possible fiancé. Making a bet with the Duke, his beloved brother Agzhey knew about this for sure, but... He hardly guessed how quickly the situation would change. Assassination attempts, mysterious messages, mysterious men quickly fade into the background when an unusual pendant falls into Michelle's hands. Attacks from creatures of the Lower World follow one after another. They won't rest until they find...Who? That's exactly what Michelle has to find out. What about the bet? Winning the bet was a matter of principle!